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Today’s youth are not buying the notion that adults will prevent future school attacks. Why should they? With little confidence that our nation’s leaders will ensure their schools are safe, students in Washington, D.C. and other major U.S. cities are hitting the streets.
To prevent school shootings, many American students quietly endure long metal detector lines, armed cops, and regular “lock down” drills. But a new round of fallen classmates has propelled them to no longer...
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What can be gained if teachers receive the same level of personalization in their professional development that we attempt to deliver to students in their learning? I posed this question in my October blog, when I introduced the One World Teacher Fellowship and its goal of helping teachers to develop and test best practices to improve research and writing skills.
Responses were robust and varied. I was disheartened by some school leaders, who felt that personalizing teacher training neglected...
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Over the last decade, One World Education has worked with hundreds of teachers and more than 25,000 students. Our teacher community has been the heart of the organization, and their feedback anchors our continual improvement. Recently we have given serious thought to several questions about how to better engage and support our teachers in return.
First, how can we assist teachers to innovate, and then study how these innovations impact learning? Second, with One World’s history of empowering...
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At the beautifully renovated Dunbar High School one recent afternoon, the bleachers in the gym were overflowing with hundreds of scholars from Higher Achievement’s Summer Academy. They had come together for their annual “Olympics of the Mind” event to celebrate a successful summer of learning. There were energetic chants, beautiful student-made banners, and sun streaming through the huge windows on the back wall of the gym. Scholars were dressed in a range of brightly colored...
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Over 230 students across Washington, DC are experiencing a learning lift rather than a summer slide because of a partnership between One World Education and Higher Achievement, a highly regarded, out-of-school time provider. These 7th- and 8th-grade students are using the One World Program at the seven Higher Achievement Summer Academy centers to write argumentative essays about social justice issues they care about.
As a former teacher, I know the mindless look of students returning to school...
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